US4614634A - Process for the production of plastic films having improved optical properties - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a process for the production of an optically virtually isotropic plastic film, and its use in liquid crystal displays.
- the handling and storage costs for the large numbers and different formats produced is considerable.
- the fragile nature of the glass requires sheet thicknesses of at least 1 mm, so that the weight of the glass sheets themselves is noticeable compared with the other components of the display, and has an adverse effect.
- German Auslegeschrift No. 1,232,336 discloses that the electrical and mechanical properties of polycarbonate films can be improved by treatment in a solvent bath or swelling agent bath. The change in these properties is attributable to a structural change in the films, which is caused by a shrinkage process. However, no attention is paid to the problem of optical birefringence.
- the object of the invention to provide plastic films in which the birefringence is eliminated or at least greatly reduced.
- the films in addition to possessing adequate mechanical properties, such as dimensional stability, permeability to steam, scratch-resistance and temperature-sensitivity, must be capable of being processed easily and continuously to all required formats, and must be chemically resistant to the effect of a large variety of auxiliary chemicals, such as dyestuffs, orienting layers, etc.
- This object is achieved, according to the invention, by a method in which first an optically uniaxial birefringent plastic film is produced in a manner which is known per se, by casting or extrusion, and, in layers of the film close to the surface, irreversible structure-relaxation processes are initiated by radiant heat or by immersion in a solvent or swelling agent, which relaxation processes result in molecular reorientation in the layers close to the surface, the reoriented structure being retained after cooling or drying of the film, and resulting in the birefringence being eliminated or compensated.
- the thermal treatment or, alternatively, the immersion process apparently loosens the association of the molecules in the zones close to the surface to such an extent that molecular reorientation (relaxation) becomes possible, and the birefringence vanishes virtually completely. It is surprising that this reorientation remains irreversible; that is to say, it is, so to speak, frozen in on cooling or drying. In this context, it is important that the film be exposed for only a relatively short time to the radiant heat or the solvent or swelling agent. Hence, layers of the film close to the surface are heated temporarily by the radiant heat, whereas the volume is affected only slightly, if at all. This applies in particular to radiation sources the wavelength of which is in the region of an absorption band of the film material.
- the depth of penetration of the radiation can be controlled via the wavelength.
- the "layer close to the surface” is understood here as meaning a region which corresponds to 10 to 30%, preferably 15 to 20%, of the total thickness of the film. This is in contrast with the heating process frequently used in industry, in which process the entire volume of the material is heated under steady-state conditions.
- the treatment of the film in a dipping bath is carried out for a time which is sufficiently short so that the solvent does not impregnate the entire film but can only diffuse into the outer layers close to the surface.
- Penetration of the solvent front into the film can be rendered visible by means of an interference microscope. Shrinkage of the film, as occurs as a result of the prolonged action of the solvent or swelling agent, was not observed in the experiments carried out here. After the drying procedure, a film having a completely transparent surface with high optical quality is obtained.
- the birefringence initially present is reduced by the thermal treatment or, alternatively, by the treatment in a dipping bath to such an extent that virtually no change in the polarisation state occurs when these films are used in conjunction with LCD displays.
- a possible explanation of the reduction of the birefringence is as follows: the production process (casting) gives rise to oriented molecular structures in layers close to the surface, and these structures cause anisotropy and hence optical birefringence. On heating or partially dissolving these layers, the molecular association is loosened and the mobility of the molecules is increased to such an extent that the above-mentioned compensation in relaxation processes can take place, and the anisotropy substantially vanishes. In the subsequent drying procedure, the mobility is then once again "frozen in”. As a result, the molecular reorientation is surprisingly retained in the layers close to the surface.
- the thickness of which is in the range from 5 ⁇ m to 0.8 mm.
- the subsequent treatment with the swelling agent or solvent is carried out in such a way that the films are exposed to the solvent or swelling agent in a bath for 1 s to 5 min, preferably 10 s to 2 min.
- the treatment is carried out at room temperature. Drying of the partially dissolved or partially swollen films is carried out in a stream of air at temperatures from 20° to 140° C.
- Starting materials advantageously used for the films are polymers for which it is possible to state a solvent or swelling agent which, apart from the desired isotropy effect, does not have any undesired side effects, such as, for example, clouding, and gives a clear homogeneous surface.
- Suitable examples are polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyacrylates and polyesters.
- Suitable solvents or swelling agents for the required treatment are xylene, cyclohexanone, tetrahydrofuran, methyl ethyl ketone, toluene, benzyl alcohol, dimethylformamide, methylene chloride, acetone, ethyl ether, ethylene chloride, trichloroethane, chloroform, m-cresol, pyridine, dioxane, benzene, chlorobenzene, Tetralin, ethyl acetate, acetonitrile and carbon tetrachloride.
- Polycarbonate films have proved particularly useful, these films advantageously being immersed in a tetrahydrofuran bath.
- plastic films produced in this manner which are virtually free from birefringence, are suitable as components (windows or substrates) for liquid crystal displays in which the display is produced by means of polarised light.
- Bisphenol A polycarbonate having a mean molecular weight of 98,000 is dissolved in methylene chloride (0.5 g/ml) at 20° C., and this solution is poured onto a slowly rotating, heated and polished cylinder, via a knife-coating apparatus.
- a clear transparent film having a layer thickness of 200 ⁇ m is obtained.
- This film is analysed quantitatively between crossed polarisers in a polarisation microscope, using a compensator. Pronounced birefringence, corresponding to a path difference ⁇ G of 74 nm, is observed.
- the product is optically uniaxial.
- the film is then immersed for 10 seconds in tetrahydrofuran at a temperature of 20° C., and then dried in a stream of air at 110° C.
- samples were taken, parallel with and at right angles to the casting direction, from a 100 ⁇ m thick polycarbonate film produced as in Example 1, and the samples were subjected to a thermal after-treatment.
- the samples were placed in a frame so that they were free from stress and were attached only at two opposite edges while remaining unattached at the other two edges.
- the frame could be fixed in a holder, the films otherwise being self-supporting; that is to say they were not supported at any point apart from the attached edges.
- a radiant quartz heater having an energy density of 20 kW/m 2 was mounted above this arrangement, at a distance of approx. 35 cm.
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______________________________________ Time, Residual bath difference (nm) sec. parallel at right angles ______________________________________ 5 61 8.5 10 69 10.6 15 51 20 40 5.0 25 35 30 6.5 8.7 35 9.5 40 5.3 4.3 50 5.0 60 4.0 2.0 ______________________________________
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